Okay I'm a sucker and impulsive so I picked this up yesterday and I started tonight after I finished God of War. I got up to the second boss (even though the first "boss" was hardly a challenge) and died. I thought I'd post some impressions.
The graphics are kind of weak. This is no Metroid Prime 2. They're not offensive, they're just not as slick as most GC exclusive titles. There's a noticable lack of music at points and there's also a lack of voiceovers. This isn't necessarily a bad thing because the voices that ARE in the game suck.
On the plus side the possession mechanic is fun. Not that I've done a whole lot of possessing (I'm only an hour in at most) but it's neat how every object has it's own perspective. And there's a scene at the beginning after you've been uh de-bodied where you're in some sort of dreamworld ghost tutorial where a calm voice is telling you things like "Isn't this nice? You're safe here. This is home now." and after it teaches you about draining plants for health and you possess a rabbit (complete with color-blind vision and "hop" button), the dreamworld starts breaking down and the same calm voice that guided you is distorting and repeating "Kill them. Kill them all." That scene really grabbed me.
So after an hour do I feel screwed out of my $50? Not really. I've hardly played it and I'm enjoying myself so far. Plus I'm being deployed to Iraq soon and no one is bringing their gamecube so I'm going to enjoy it while I'm still in the states and hope I can finish the game before I leave.
TL;DR:
Possession, the potential I've seen so far (namely the simulation scene)
$50 is $50. That's like my whole allowance for one week. Graphics are kind of weak.
Bad voiceovers. Where's the music?
